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THE INDIANA PCPUUSTS
TIm- MW Hri r4 lias MmI f IK
Of iglaai tpsHt I'a yrr
! llukt Mai
Ij-M go Hryan and the i
Mark Hisui .i.tsxtjs tt-re will b- j
irxre disreputable than any '
- ,i - .,t 4 , .. ,.lifrrK
i tow 4 of mahr.iu. ts and party traitors
. ' ,
t . r were ia these I ru-l States. Of :
la.te thej have dose kc? of the CKwt .
riaijrxar.t lyirg that ran be found In
, m v T!. fol- -
tb whole jroI.2-i.uff pr-?s. IH loi- !
sowing is a iwsEr.;'--.
The Nebraska Icu-indst. a fu-j t nder the head of civil and miscel
rsoa paper, and decidedly democratic j laneous expenses, the last congress ap
in it tendencies published at I Jn- j propriated $SO,X78,115.26. and since
oln. Neb., i trying to make the pop- j July 1. when the appropriation became
ulrvts it that tlt U-liee that Stev- available. $2348,509.34 has been ex-r.-or-.
the cVn.uTi.t!c candidate for j pended. It ia out of this funa that the
i-- pei4r.t, is almost a populist.
No tt- eCitor of tJu Independent
ktop. If he Lsows anythitiK. that
Stevenson was k? f i nt while
u!aul wa president, and that he
was is f'ill :-.fur 1 with Cl-lacd in
all hit r'AJ-h xK doir.r. in-!ad!rsK the
r o! tLe oa!y la ttat provided
for the c of toure filter am money,
tl-at is fiul. he ma f.- of Cleveland's
CiAia ct'Ctw-fctJiil adrif--!. acd that
h -aii put on tt" tirk'-t with lir; ;ta
at KaasAjs City to t t:?Jy tLe .old-!-!is
elIe t. jr.rt ut S-- ali v u put a
the tkkt at the Chicago roawction
!a to Mt!if tht jrr.- eleriie.tt." j
Now that is a err f!Hy jUitement
to tsAl: to the Arrvn:iri p-ipl or the
f-- dozen of thu that that paper
re&r te. It prof to le t 1 1 raij.'ht
pwpiihst papr a: d thut ts the ay it
j:e to 4.sfeitt ili the el t on of MrKm-1-T
ty frXtizz Cien who uald other
wise vote for iir in to ot- for a da:n
njf caiididte who w .t to Mcivlnley
ai-i tra?;r'-d thit he tad rude ar
racjeemetit to k-p er.oa.rh wjpu'Ut
ftrt a ay fro:n iir j au to e!-ct Mc
KiEy. Now- the 0-:u, of The Ir.'iper-'jMit
was lo Vahj: rtor. mo.-t i t CStveiaud s
ltt t-rt::. H ifioss, as eery one
know-, that Adlai tevesun during
i!.i that b'..r. nr. : terrihle httl-. was
s tru to nlr a Senator Teller or
John 1. Jore. Trie tradtiots of faU
c.-fftee I'-'Tv'i hia to t.e ';ulet atil keep
Li raouth c d ia ihllr. but he
r.erer wavered for a tiioment in his
purport of it- cuen who foufht m lone
and o l-raely for the principle plank
in the p.'pciit piatiorm the free
-f.r.jr- of tir at the ratio of 16 to 1.
Any man who wh that Stevenson a
In full accord with Cleveland must be
wrhrdJy itrn&rm-nt of tie current events
cf tro times or imply a Mark Han
li har for what there ia it.
At oue time the fold-bug rf-aator
rot up a Mheme to violate the rules
t f the M-cate and intrw. ice anarchy
In that body by puttici? t-ie rr.otion on
th r ral of ni e SLeriuis act some
clay w tea twee roM-bu: -t.ator was
;a the hair. Stiato- Teller and ev
eri othT of the free silver members
cf the ketai- cali.-d u;on Stevenson
avl the editor of The independent
west along. Stevenson H.ten-d to the
ptory and then aid: "The motion will
r.o tie put whs!- I -am vice president,
toctrary to the rulrs of the et.ate."
Juki a otc as a once populist pa-j.-r
become an ai-taf.t republican,
itt editor alwaj adopts republican
twrtte and fi'S to lying whoWale,
and that t Jut what the editor of
the Union IX patch of Kokoino, Ind.,
rfd when be wrote that article. The
lnerend-ct repeat what it ha said
from the beginning, and that is: There
is nothing ia the record of Adiai Stev
enson that will prevent any populist
from voting for him. a there was in
the record of SewaU.
Is tnu aire i p-r it is feaid that l
Tern Vuod '! a true a populist as j
ever lived." Tom Waton has an- ,
noced hi intention to vote for ;
liryan at all true populitts will.
EKOHMOUS EXPENDITURES
.b ir.,u .in M.rc rcre.. in m,- j
... x K... i. ,u. j and harrowing semi sew outir-
i ty-thrce American soldiers In the Phll
m.wr, ti.,...er..u.t j ippSnes died BinCe the previous report.
The !r.j;en,:.t ta fjeiUectly whjca was less than two weeks ago.
c ied attention to th eijormoup war ; To what end have these American
and naval etj&iiture of "this roverr-j toys died? Where shall we find, the
r.t and tow the fct are h- sinning j recompense?
to be printed. It Hi-a:. another ie.nue ! Uanna Pfifff fha Path
of bor. a ure as ih days o by. I tlaMi 0B15 lilB WdMl.
Notwitr.ptat.ditr the rr.atin-iar.. of I WASHINGTON. D. C. Sept. 2. The
the ?zcp s.d oth-r ar taxer. th r ' numerous host of patriots who have
win t a deficit of ot !- than t-'V bcn suffering from the prevailing
, . I'r. Vr the of Mar h 11 "apathy" against Which Mr. Hanna
th
i- ".r.t; t to pay
f'D ii I 'Z. , W tef4.
. : L.r.'s V.
t ' K' ltr!.! ..t.-i
-vf o th bafiK-
ri- w.il ure th-ri to S'.:- pa
Ir t!iiey ar.d u;u. tht the r-ojie
w ii t a t. p- jii?-r-st araifi. A
Wahiirt lr i-i-u 'i August 27
t - ! ' .- !s. tn the 5r-e.-tjt tinic
-C-. .f !f i.i to i-o'-tr ID the
fe a fo;k;
' S ?t I: t h ;,' rate of -1 f (ii-
f.f-?. t h- ot of ffiaittitlr the m-v-
-irtr.t ; tie eoveram.nt for
t r--i -.-I '"'2 ev..l
r y tsu.-.ot: t? - -1'5-ropr.atson maie
ty th- .t .
J rotu Juu j .p to , !-. than
. . .... . ...... . .v.- . . i
o-pdrttS'est, . it iv en o'it by the trea
ffv n ; artfi :!. Liif t-n 132,110,-
m :
TlsJ 4S titjt iti- lde the coet f't
tif i . r. t I O. .t j ... ini r- A
fr.it. ru. ,r..ft ir, r!.imus.cg liar.
-i el ff rr th ff ial d!l,utir.g of-
ficerm ith the 1 '.i.-t Stat armies in
lb- i I!..
Tt- proprij;D raade by the 11
Oi.gr"- tor the t-.ii:. -iiar.ee of the
war depart meet. in'iuding ail expenses j
Cf t& artrtv. w fl 1 4..223.22.
t.U-a e5et.v are materially de-crei--i
it ejtlruate.! that for the
J3a:iier.a.-- of the artay and the war
Ucjfarttutnt cerly f,,jf)JjQ in ex-
cfs of the appropriation will' have
bwn expended during the current fiscal
year.
The statement of the treasury de
partment, given August 20. also shows
that the expenditures of the navy de
i oartment are runnini? far ahead nf th
appropriation made by congress.
For the entire yeartrom July 1, 1900,
to June 20. 1901. the last congress ap-
propriated for the maintenance of the
" , , . --..-.n T
navy department $o2. 147,043.35. In
ttan two monthg $10,356,673.98 has
been expended.
At this rate, by the end of the year
the navy have expended nearly
ti .-i i k
tion
expenses of the McKinley commissions
are paid and simply charged to- mis
cellaneous expenses, without being
itemized.
Other departments of the government
show that the ratio of expenditure is
also far in excess of the appropriation
made by congress.
It is admitted by the administration
officials that the nest congress will
have to make a large appropriation to
cover the deficiency in the expenses of
the government for the present year.
TOM BENTON
iuix-ra are Surprised to Find that Be
Wa the Original Populist.
Colonel Doniphan, who is now a
very old man. says that he was at a
meeting in St. Louis In 1S49 and Col
onel Benton delivered a speech in fav
or of a line starting at St. Louis, go
ing by Ka.nsas City and up the valley
of the Kansas river and crossing the
Uocky mountains at the head of the
Platte river. It was then that I heard
him give utterance to the grand dec
laration. "When this mighty work is
completed and the' commerce of the
etist is being brought over it, and the
iron bands connect the oceans, a grate
ful country will carve out of the gran-i
ite pillars of the Rocky mountains a
statue of Columbus pointing to the
west and exclaiming, 'There is the
east! There! There is India.' " Re
garding the bill for the building of a
Pacific railroad that Benton intro
duced. Colonel Doniphan says:
"On December J6. 1850, Colonel Ben
ton introduced in the senate a bill 'To
locate and construct a great national
highway from EL. Louis, on the Mis
souri, to the bay ot San Francisco, on
the Pacific ocean. In his advocacy he
said the bill conformed to all the ideas
of a national highway. (1) It Is cen
tral, as it begins and ends between the
1 thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth paral
lels. (2) It is national, as it combines
a railroad, a graded wagon road and
a turnpike or paved roadway, and a
telegraph line, all parallel, and to be
built upon the right of way, of one
mile in width. In the public domain.
(3) It would have a branch to Santa
Fe. one to Salt Lake and byond to
Oregon. (4) It would be national, as
the work was to be done and owned
by the government,"
The Philippine Death List.
The newspapers of Wednesday Aug
ust 29. published another installment
of the serial story, entitled, "The Phil
ippine Death List." It Is on time and
of the usual length. It contains the
names of thirty-three American young
1 men sacrificed upon the altar of Mam-
mon. Some died of wounds, although
we are assured that the islands are
pacified and that there is no war. Some
died of dysentery some or smallpox,
one died of sprue, whatever that is;
some of uraemia, some of nephritis,
some of malarial fever, some of ty
phoid, some of tuberculosis and some
died from causes unknown to the au-
thorities. But the chapter in this long
1 han been invelging mightily for a
month can now prepare to make up
and proceed to do business. Mr. Han
na let it be known at New York re
cently that he has all the money he
needs for the campaign.
Mr. Hanna was closeted yesterday
with representatives of various trusts
and other large corporations in the
offices of the New York Life Insurance
' company, the conference lasting sev
: era! hours. It was at the close of this
. emfernce that fr Hanna mad the
; anaotineement of having completed his
'campaign fund. When asked by an
iroIrtlnent reported what the size
of hi campaign fund was Mr. Hanna
r ,itA-
"It's nobody's business how much
money I have raised or how much we
think we shall need in the campaign."
W. n. Curtis is sometimes a most
The other day he said
i be had been in aearly evtry state of
f the union during th? I?st few months
j and had never yet met a man, not per-
tonally interested, who believed that
1 Bryan would be elected. Just at pres-
ent he is working up a great quarrel
among the democrats in New York
which will surely effect the election of
McKinley. Ell Perkins used to do
homo tall lying, but he couldn't hold
a candle to W. E. 'Curtis.
REPUBLICAN EVIDENCE
The Great Men of the Republican Party
Hare all Declared the Present Posi
tion of the Populist Party is right.
Wise statesmen as they were they
perceived .the tendency of prosperity
to breed tyrants, and so they estab
lished these great self-evident truths,
that, when in the distant future some
ban, some faction, some interest,
should set up the doctrine that none
but rich men, or none but white men,
or none but Anglo-Saxon white men
were entitled to life, liberty and the
pursuit' of happiness, their posterity
might dock up again to the Declara
tion of Independence, and take cour
age to renew the battle which their
father's began, so that truth and jus
tice and mercy and all the humane
and Christian virtues might not be
extinguished from the land. Speech
Of Abraham Lincoln at Lewiston, Aug
ust, 1858.
WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
We are different from any other na
tion ; and it is that" difference which
makes us the best. Our political sys
tem rests upon a principle different
from that of any other. It is founded
upon the consent of the people. If we
had wanted it otherwise we would not
have left home, but would have re
mained the obedient child of an im
perious parent. We, would not have
turned from the mother country. We
would have remained one of her de
pendencies. We would not have fought
our way through blood and sacrifice
to independence. Speech at Georgia
Chautauqua. August 21, 1888.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Of course no one would wish to see
these, ox any other settled communi
ties, now added to our domain by
force we want no unwilling citizens
to enter our junion. The time to have
taken the lands was before the settlers
came Into them. European nations
was for the possession of thickly set
tled districts which, if conquered, will
for centuries remain alien and hostile
to the conquerors. We,-wiser in our
generation, have seized the waste soli
tudes that lay near us, the limitless
forests and never-ending plains, and
the valley of the great lonely rivers,
and have thrust our own sons into
them to take possession, and a score
of 'years after each conquest we see
the conquered land teeming with a
people that is one with ourselves.
From "Life of Thomas H. Benton."
OWEN LOVEJOY.
I care not what may have been the
creed of the man who drew up the Dec
laration of Independence, the truths it
asserted were intended to realize the
mission of the Pilgrim Fathers .
It declared that governments derive
their powers, not from invading bor
der ruffians, but from the will of the
governed. What, then, is
the mission of America? It is to main
tain and illustrate the self-evident
truths laid down in that Declaration of
Independence. Speech before first re
publican convention, 1856.
CHARLES SUMNER.
But I cannot disguise my anxiety
that every stage in our predestined fu
ture shall be by natural process, with
out war, and, I may add, even with
out purchase. There is no territorial
aggrandizement which is worth the
price of blood. Speech on acquisition
of Alaska.
JAMES G. BLAINE.
Happily removed by our geographi
cal position from participation or in
terest in those questions of dynasty or
boundary which so frequently disturb
the peace of Europe, we are left to
cultivate friendly relations with all,
and are free from possible entangle
ments in the quarrels of any.
While the great powers of Europe are
steadily enlarging their colonial do
mination in Asia and Africa, it is the
especial province of this country to im
prove and expand its trade with the
nations of America. No field promises
so much. No field has been cultivated
so little. Our policy should be an Am
erican policy in its broadestf and most
comprehensive sense a policy of
peace, of friendship, of commercial en
largement. From letter of acceptance,
July 15, 1884.
JOHN SHERMAN.
I am and always have been opposed
to war in the Philippines. We have
no business there, and I hope they
will soon be left alone to govern them
selves. I shall be glad to welcome the
day when the soldier boys shall be
called home from the Philippines. We
shall then again be the same great
family as we have been heretofore.
The war is not only an expensive war,
but it is also unnecessary, uncalled for
and unjust. Speech at soldiers' reun
ion, Mansfield, 0., August 26, 1899.
JAMES A. GARFIELD.
But liberty is no negation. It is a
substantive, tangible reality. It is the
realization of those imperishable
truths of the Declaration, "that all
men are created equal;" that the sanc
tion of all just government is "the
consent of the governed." Speech in
congress, January 13, 1865.
When, one hundred years ago, our
fathers announced as self-evident
truths the declaration that all men are
created equal, and the only just power
of government is derived from the con
sent of the governed, they uttered a
doctrine that no nation had ever
adopted, that not one kingdom on the
earth then believed. Yet to our fath
ers it was so plain that they- would not
debate it. Unconsciously to
themselves, the great truths were
growing under the new conditions, un
til, like the century-plant, they blos
somed into the matchless beauty of
the Declaration of Independence,
whose fruitage, increased and increas
ing, we enjoy today. Reply to Lamar,
in committee of the whole.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
So It has happened that heretofore,
nations have either repelled, or ex
hausted, or disgusted the colonies they
planted and the countries they con
quered. The United States, on the
contrary, expand, not by force of arms,
but by attraction The native colon
ist no sooner reaches a new and dis
tant home, whether in a cleft of the
Rocky mountains or on. the seashore,
than he proceeds to found a state, in
which his natural and inalienable
rights shall be secure, and which shall
become an equal member of the fed
eral union, enjoying- its protection, and
sharing its growing greatness and re
nown. Speech at Yale university,
July 26, 1854.
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
.It (the Mexican war) was an in
stance of a republic following the bad
example of European monarchies, in
not considering justice in their desire
to acquire additional territory. In
1885. - .
ROSCOE CONKLING.
This republic of ours is the only
considerable experiment extant on the
globe, of ii government, "of the peo
ple, for the people, and by the people."
Its theatre is a continent blessed with
abundant and matchless natural ad
vantages. Its polity and its institu
tions are the work of extraordinary
men, drawn from many older nation-s
alities men profoundly versed in
government and they consecrated
themselves to devising a system su
perior to any mankind had'known. It
has endured a .hundred years in the
world's most enlightened age, and if
now the experiment has culminated In
one grand carnival of venality and
paradise of trickery and plunders, who
dares come next in the march of na
tions to dispute the divinity of kings?
Speech at Brooklyn, October 30, 1874.
THOMAS B. REED.
War is a beastly barbarism. It is
only, murder on, a large scale with
ranked battalions and pomp and cir
cumstance. . Men, have found
by experience which is another name
for knowledge that it does not pay in
the long run to destroy property, and
hereafter they will find out that it
does not pay to ;' destroy life. Satur
day Evening Post, 1900.
GEORGE F. HOAR:
The question the American people
are now considering and with which
they are about to -deal is not a ques
tion of a ilay, or "of a year, or of an
administration, or" of a century. It Is
to affect and largely determine the
whole future of the country. We can
recover from a mistake in regard to
other matters which have interested
or divided the people, however impor
tant or serious. Tariffs and currency
and revenue laws, even foreign wars,
all tbese, as Thomas Jefferson said,
"are billows that wiir pass under the
ship." But if the republic is to violate
the law of its "being if it is to be con
verted into ah :empire, not only the
direction of ' the voyage is to be
changed, but the chart and the com
pass are to be thrown away. We have
not as yet taken the irrevocable step.
Before it is taken let the voice of the
whole people be heard
GEORGE F. EDMUNDS.
WTien the United States aided in the
attainment and recognized the inde
pendence of " the Spanish provinces of
Central and 'South America our gov
ernment did not set itself up to be the
final, judge of whether or not they
were capable of self-government, al
though it was perfectly well known
that self-government by the people
of these provinces could not be such,
and never could be such, as the races
and inhabitants of temperate zones
could establish and maintain. Letter
of January 8, 1899.
JOHN B. HENDERSON.
(Ex-Senator from Missouri.)
It has been said that the trusts and
protected interests of the country have
demanded this sacrifice of republican
justice to the now dominant spirit of
avarice and greed. If such be the
case, no accusation of the anti-imperialist
is without its vindication. If this
legislation is to be enforced the terri
tories of the United States will here
after be known as colonies,, They will
be governed not by those familiar and
sympathetic with their interests, but
by aliens greedy of their earnings and
heedless of their sufferings. As the
feast grows small the vultures will
fight over their prey. Rome did no
more than this, and if we follow her
example, we must expect to follow her
fate. Speech at Philadelphia, Feb
ruary 22, 1900. -
GEORGE S. BOUTWELL.
(Ex-Senator, ex -Secretary of the Treas
ury, and ex-Governor of Mass.)
In my age I leave the republican par
ty now that it has surrendered itself
to despotic and tyrannical motives. I
helped create the republican party, a
party at that time of justice and prin
ciple and honesty. I now believe it is
a party of Injustice and despotism and
I will help to destroy it. And how?
There is but one available means and
you know what that is. I am for
Bryan. I am for Bryan in spite of
what he may believe concerning the
currency or finances of the country.
This is a question of life or death to
the republic. In such a crisis shall
we stop .to consider whether silver
should be worth more or less than it
is? If a, mistake is made in the next
administration, should Bryan be elect
ed, the people can remedy It in four
or eight years. The country would
not be destroyed; If the currency" is
impaired we can redeem it. It was
impaired during the civil war and we
redeemed it afterwards. Speech at
Indianapolis, August 15, 1900.
SHELBY M. CULLOM.
Mr. President, the United States Is
not a government of conquest or of
usurpation. Our country is not a
country of wars and warfare. - Our
people are not bred to the business of
human slaughter, nor educated in the
trade of blood. Our fathers taught us
that the empire of, happiness was not
to bvj reached by grasping ; the terri
tories of our neighbors, but rather
that the peace and prosperity of our
country and the highest enjoyment of
our people would be found In wisely
caring for the magnificent Inheritance
which they transmitted to us.
The history of these outrageous acts
of nearly every European power of
consequence is but a repetition, time
after time of the story of usurpatjon,
tyranny and bloodshed. A pretext is
made, the inhabitants are driven off or
enslaved, peacefully, if possible, but
wiv fire and swordif necessary; the
country is occupied, and its whole ma
terial capabilities are made tributary
to the conquering nation: Speech in
senate, December 10. 1895.
JOHN HAY.
There are those who think the Span
iards are not fit for freedom. I be
lieve that no people are fit for any
thing else. Castilian Days by John
Hay.
HENRY CABOT LODGE.
As a part of the British empire the
struggles of Europe were vital to us.
As the United States of America, as a
free and independent nation, we have
no concern with them. So Washing
ton laid down the principle of neutral
ity in the European wars then raging
and maintained it in the midst of ob
loquy and attack. It was left to a
later, generation to appreciate rightly
the far-reaching wisdom and the high
courage which dictated the action of
our great first president. When Wash
ington went out of office and gave to
the country his farewell address, he
stated the principle which he had car
ried into action 'in words which can
not be improved, and which have been
the guide of all succeeding statesmen
of the United States upon this point
from that day to this.-rSpeech in sen
ate, December 30, 1S95.
DAVID S. HEN DERSON.
(Speaker of House of Representatives.)
Young as we are as a nation we have
spent eighteen long years in battle
four of them in deadly fratricidal
strife. Today the genius of our coun
try, indeed of the world, is bending all
its powers to increase the capacity for
destruction of all the terrible engines
hot death. Is it not high time that each
citizen become a Nazarene to proclaim
peace among the people? Let every
martyr's grave be a sermon and every
widow's wail a hymn for peace. Let
us cut down our army bill and save
our earnings for the school house, the
library and the home. The
wretches that have brought this desol
ation are the panthers, the hyenas and
the ghouls of humanity. War
is the world's terrible, relentless, re
morseless inquisition. War is the
weapon of tyrants, the prop of thrones.
Speech at Chicago, September 12, 93.
ECONOMICALLY MANAGED.
Republican politicians and editors
are indulging in a good deal of libel
lous, talk about Dr. Lang these days.
The doctor's action in holding on does
not meet with the approval of fusion
ists generally; yet a visit to the in
stitute for feeble-minded youth would
give the lie to those stories regarding
the condition of the inmates. For more
than six months past there was not
a single case of sickness that kept the
patient in bed over a day at the long
est. The inmates have plenty 'of out
door exercise, good food and good
medical treatment. During the school
year, they have the best instruction
available and are taught as far In the
common branches as each individual's
capacities will permit.
. This has been a peculiarly unfor
tunate institution from the first. Dur
ing fusion administration a nest of
republican ward-heelers, headed by
the State Journal correspondent, have
attempted blackmail on every fusion
superintendent who has taken charge
and, failing to receive what they
asked, have waged incessant warfare
upon him. So far this coterie of dis
reputables have succeeded in making
trouble for Dr. Fall, Dr. Sprague and
Dr. Lang. They will do their level best
to make trouble for Dr. Dearing; but
if he is wise, he will steer clear of the
Journal .correspondent and promptly
discharge any employe who is caught
chumming with that prince of liars.
Yet notwithstanding its numerous
superintendents and occasional rows,
and its present incumbent refusing to
be jarred loose, it has been conducted
with much less cost to the state than
under the boasted administration of
Dr. Armstrong, the republican.
From January 1, 1892, to June 30,
1894, a period of two and one-half
years, there were 153 inmates. The
cost was $78,503.69, or $513.09 per in
mate. From June.l, 1897, to November 30,
1899, two and one-half shears, there
were 216 inmates. The cost w;as $87,
924.60, or $407.06 per inmate r a saving
of $106.03 on each inmate for that
period.
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Under republican mismanagement,
iae cost of maintaining each inmate
at the Norfolk hospital for insane one
year was $245.07.
Under fusion, good government the
inmates are better cared for, have bet
ter clothing, better food, better medi
cal treatment and attendance; yet the
cost per inmate per year is only
$179.09.
Figure it out for yourself :
No. inmates. Tot. cost.
1892-4 (rep.) ...194 $142,629 91
1897-1900 (fus.) 244, 131,093 63
A saving of $65.98 per year in keep
ing each inmate is a neat little sum;
with 244 inmates it means $16,099.12
saved each year.
It is announced in the London papers
that Gates, the wire trust magnate,
will leave England this week and come
to Illinois to make a campaign for sen
ator. That accounts for the orders
sent out there by Mark Hanna to drop
both Cullom and Tanner, on the pre
tense that their contest for the senate
was injurious to the national ticket,
and it means a million for Mark's
fund to buy this election.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
Any Man Who Eights It, Must, in this
v Day of Advancement, be an
Economic Pirate. .
Populism advances by Meaps and
bounds. Efght years ago when a pop
ulist advocated the government owner
ship of railroads and telegraphs, he
was looked upon as a wild-eyed crank.
No great paper or magazine would
publish an article advocating such doc
trines. If they were referred to at
all in the, public press, it 'was with
sarcasm and ridicule. But . the old
farmers went along, talking and rea
soning with their neighbors and
friends and after a while some of the
"wise men" heard of these things and
began to discuss them. Today they
are advocated insome of the greatest
dailies in the United States, hot half
heartedly, but boldly and openly. The
greatest daily in the United States de
voted its whole editorial page last
Sunday to the advocacy ; of the gov
ernment ownership of the , telegraphs
and railroads. Think of that, you old
sun-browned, callous-handed farmer!
Hold up your head and march on to
greater victories." You have been lead
ing the world and didn't know it. The
writers, scholars and philosophers
have learned wisdom from you.
Among other things, the New York
Journal of last Sunday had this to
say about government ownership:
"A single vast system extends its
wires from Key West to Puget Sound.
Competition is practically non-existent
and individual enterprise entirely so.
In such circumstances private control
is wholly mischievous. In every re
spect its management and the distri
bution of its profits the telegraph sys
tem is a public enterprise, and the
process of nationalization ought to be
made complete. "
"So of the railroads. We have not
yet reached the single railroad trust
that is to control all the transportation
routes of the country, but things are
moving that way so rapidly that the
end is plainly in sight. Already we
have single men in command of rail
road systems greater than the whole
mileage of important, European coun
tries. Half a dozen, men could get to
gether about a lunch table and dictate
the policy of all : the roads in the
United States. ' . .
"The railroads of . this country em
ploy a million men one-fifteenth of
all the voters of the union represent
ing a population, nearly equal to that
of the state of New Ydrk. These men
constitute a f orce too. formidable to be
under any control but. that of the' na
tion. We talk about the 'dangers of
militarism, from a standing army of a
hundred thousand men, but here is a
standing army of a million men the
picked men of the country for vigor,
courage and endurance. By the side
of such forces how petty were the lit
tle bands of men-at-arms with which
the Colonna and the Orsinl terrorized
Rome in the middle ages;
"The railroads not only control the
largest organized force of workers in
the United t States, but they control
practically all the industries in the
country. By their alliance with the
trusts they are helping to kill off com
petition everywhere. They built up
the Standard Oil combination by dis
criminating rates and persecution of
rivals until how the creature Is great
er than its creator: They have main
tained the monopoly of the sugar trust.
They uniformly use their power to
build up great combinations and de
stroy individual enterprise.
"The railroad system has passed be
yond the competitive stage of organ
ization, and therefore it ought to be
long to the public. Under national con
trol, with discriminations abolished
and a fair field opened to all, it would
help to delay the advance of socialism
in other directions.
"Meanwhile it should not be for
gotten that the only party that can
logically oppose the general adoption
of state socialism is the democracy.
It Is the only guardian of the competi
tive system. The trusts have deprived
their friends of every argument against
socialism. They have trampled on the
principle of individual enterprise; they
have proved that the national organi
zation of industry Is practicable, and
they have carried it out in the most
offensive form a form in which the
masses do all the work and the few ab
sorb all the profits.
"An advocate of the trusts must be
either a socialist or a pirate. The man
who abhors piracy and still clings to
so much individual enterprise as can
be preserved Mn our stage of develop
ment most of necessity be a democrat."
LABOR DAY ORATORY
The Wage Earner will almost Universally
Vote for Bryan Hanna still Holding:
Roosevelt Down
WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 31.
The labor unions, as a rule, guard the
Labor day speeches with great care
in order that they may be non-partisan
in character.
The day is usually an anniversary
upon which the economic history of
the country is reviewed and sugges
tions made for future work.
The unions feel that they have ac
complished many notable victories
without allying themselves formally
with either party and . they are ex
tremely careful hot to surrender econ
omic weapons for those purelypoliti
cal. J
The unions, however, recognized that
at times certain fundamental issues
arise which have to be settled politi
cally and yet concern every wage
worker, regardless of party.
Such is the case this year. , The two
issues of imperialism and trusts
formed the staple topics in the Labor
day oratory all over the country. The .
labor unions have been anti-Imperialists
from the beginning. They are op
posed to the imperialism which would
hold the Philippines as subject colonies
for the sake of exploiting cheap labor.
If neither of, the existing political
parties had made imperialism the
paramount issue, the working people
of the country would have been forced
to line themselves up in protest
against this policy which threatens
seriously the future economic prosper
ity ofHhe country.; , . . . ' v
Labor day speakers pointed out how
an immense supply of cheap labor al
ways at hand would tend to degrade
labor in this country if the cheap la
bor was allowed to come here. If it
were confined to the Philippines the
result would be quite as deplorable"
because some of our most Important
industries would remove to the scene
of abundant . cheap labor. Then the
wage workers of this country would
have their choice between idleness and
accepting the pittance that Filipinos
and Chinamen could live upon in or
der to keep the industries from leav
ing this country completely.
This Is no fancy picture. It may
be said that the Filipinos do not de
sire to work. '. Perhaps not. But with
militarism as an adjunct of imperial
ism they could be forced to labor. Just
as England no w forces the Egyptian
cotton weavers " to produce wealth, re
gardless of their own Inclinations. v
The rapid and formidable growth of
trusts makes the wage worker anxious
in various directions, but in connec
tion with imperialism it is easy to see
how readily the trusts could change
the seat of manufacturing or import
cheap labor and the citizens of the
country who work for wages would be
powerless. It did not need a political
campaign to open the eyes of the work
ingmen to the dangers of imperialism,
but the intense interest shown in re
gard to it on Labor day has a deep
significance. j
The general argument against im
perialism appeals to the citizen In pro
portion to his patriotism and ; his
knowledge of the fundamental prin-'
ciples of free government.
The working people have a selfish
reason in addition to the patriotic one. .
They perceive that imperialism backed
by militarism and aided by trusts
threatens their very means of subsis
tence. The men who labor for daily
wages will vote for Bryan regardless
of previous party affiliations because
the danger is one that threatens them
regardless of party.
It was this big industrial vote which
was lacking in '96. It was cowed Into
voting for McKinley. Coercion will
be tried again, but the conditions are
different. - 'r '.
The trust issue Is next In importance .
to the Industrial masses. They are
the people who have to pay trust prices
for practically everything they eat,
drink and wear. They are the people
who have suffered when trusts closed
down factories. They are the people
who know, that no matter how many ,
millions profit the trust makes in a
year, it does not advance wages un
less its employes are organized and
ready to risk expensive strikes in or
der to force the payment of living
wages.
The education along these lines ap
peals directly to the Interests of the
workingmen. In such a case they
would probably vote for any party
which voiced their protest. The fusion
party does in the most unmistakable
manner. That's why Bryan will get'
the votes of the working people.
Republican orators,, talk in vague
generalities about "prosperity," but
not one of them has been found with
courage enough to analyze the effect
of , Philippine labor on the American
market. They say when forced to
make some reply that the Filipinos
will be kept out. In view of the con
stantly increasing stream of Chinesei
immigration"" which pours into this
country in defiance of the exclusion
act, the. wage-workers do not believej
such promises. No republican is ready
to discuss the effect of employing the
Filipinos In their own islands and
letting their products compete with
that of American labor. That is. one
of the issues from which attention is
to be diverted. ' ,
Hanna's whole ddea is to divert at
tention from the real issues. Senator
Davis and Congressman Grosvenor,
for instance, are making very eloquent
speeches praising the administration
for its wisdom and courage In han
dling the Chinese trouble. ,The trou
ble is not settled. And the indication!?
are that McKinley Is going to get sad
ly involved In the diplomatic game
that is Just being opened. But ora
torical gush about China serves to
divert attention from the empty din
ner pail in this country and the aw
ful blunder which the administration
has made in the Philippines. , -
It was just about a year ago that
Secretary Root was assuring the coun
try that the 70,000 troops then heing
sent to the Philippines would be homo
in six months. They are not home yet.
In fact more troops are being sent to
Manila, but the administration oratorn
are silent about that. To talk of ths
Philippine war might remind the peo
ple that they are still paying war
taxes.
Roosevelt has 'been kept in seclu
sion since that unlucky St. Paul speech
of his. Hanna sayj in a vague way
that Roosevelt will make some speech
es in the west later in the campaign.
It will be very late, indeed, if the par
ty managers have their way.
Protests are coming to republican
headquarters that the people of the
west don't want any such gingerbread
soldier as Roosevelt sent out to them
to make their campaign ridiculous.
Altogether .Roosevelt has a hard timo
finding any place where he is wanted.
HERBERT JANVRIN BROWNE.
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